Laurence Sterne

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them...had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases with the acquisition of it.”

“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy.”

“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy.”

“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren.”

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.”

“Freethinking is not a crime.”

“I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.”

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

“Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind.”

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading.”

“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”

“A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining.”

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Writing, when properly managed, is but a different name for conversation.”

“Writing, when properly managed, is but a different name for conversation.”